Would the GOP agree to a provision in the ACA to be amended to...?
You are correct in saying that when the uninsured have showed up at for-profit hospitals' more expensive Emergency Rooms for nonemergency care these costs are passed on by hospital administrators, either through higher prices ($20 aspirins, for example) or higher insurance premiums that sometimes rose more than 100X the rate of inflation over the past 30 years after Reagan's handlers had him fire the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and thus declare all-out WAR on our nation's full-time workers with employer-provided health care. The mandatory rule was originally proposed by the biblical-literalist theocratic-COUP-seeking far-rightwing Heritage Foundation---a group with way too much power that is now spending many $millions$ to derail the insurance reforms and the very mandatory rule they proposed that is contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and its supplemental Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), a.k.a., the Affordable Care Act or Obama Care. Instead of using the word "mandatory" I would suggest that a better term for the penalty at the end of each year after 2014 would be a "fee for services received"---no more freeloading for those of upper-income status who can afford to pay but instead try to game the system and then pass the costs of their care onto others. Lower income Americans now qualify for federally funded expanded Medicaid (see whitehouse.gov or the insurance exchanges set up at healthcare.gov), and those making 400% above the poverty line ($45,2000 a year for individuals or $94,200 for a family of 4) qualify to receive a federal subsidy to lower their rates, and this leaves higher income Americans required to pay or else be assessed a fee so that none of us are required to pay for their care. Seems reasonable. The nice thing is that you get some of your money back, thanks to Obama Care, because the 1300 for-profit insurers have to spend at least 80% of your premium dollar on you, on providing actual health care to you, or else they have to REFUND THE DIFFERENCE at the end of each year. This is good.
Was "ObamaCare" originally a Republican idea?
No, it wasn't even a RINO idea. 100% of all republicans in both the house and Senate voted against it. 0-care got zero republican votes. It was constructed with no republican input. Republicans weren't allowed on the committee. Republicans weren't allowed to add or subtract a single word of the document. This is because democrats didn't want leaks as to what was actually in the document. By no means is 0-care an original deal with the republicans. The problem as seen by democrats was the existence of the remaining vestiges of capitalism in the medical insurance field. Democrats had to destroy the medical insurance industry before they could institute socialized medicine Democrats have wanted socialized medicine since FDR. 0-care was designed to fail so democrats could ride to the rescue with a worse plan i.e. Socialized Medicine. True Republicans believe… •That the free enterprise system is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice, •That all individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society, •That fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government, •That the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations, •That peace is best preserved through a strong national defense, •That faith in God, as recognized by our Founding Fathers is essential to the moral fiber of the Nation. There is nothing radical about this platform. Just 20 years ago people would have yawned and asked what he was going to do to get these things done. It is middle of the road conservatism.